The residents exist on dehydrated food that tastes terrible. Transporting actual furniture is overly expensive, meaning they sleep on air mattresses and sit on inflated chairs. The sleeping pods are small and the inhabitants often feel claustrophobic. The toilets are sometimes problematic and are located across the building from the residential area.

The community is called Moon Base Alpha, or MBA.ĭash opens by saying that living on the moon sounds like an incredible adventure, but that there are problems no one mentioned when the family was recruited for this task. Many of these scientists have families and there are a few children who live in the small community. All the other families were chosen because of their areas of expertise, such as astrobiology or robotics. A maintenance worker named Garth Grisan and one family who paid for the privilege of spending a few months on the moon are also in the community. About two dozen people reside in the compound, along with a few who occasionally arrive for short periods of time, usually for specific purposes such as delivering food or providing some service. The family has been on the moon for about six months of their 3-year stay when the events of this novel take place.

His mother is geologist Rose Harris, and his father is mining specialist Steven Gibson. Kindle AZW file.ĭashiell Gibson, known as Dash, is a twelve year-old who lives on the moon with his parents and younger sister, Violet, who is 6. Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York, New York, 2014.

The following version of the book was used to create this study guide: Gibbs, Stuart.

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